By Eric Utter

Statues and monuments to some of the most important Western historical figures of all time have been summarily defaced and destroyed in recent weeks, including those of Columbus, Washington, Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Winston Churchill. None of these figures had a damn thing to do with the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but that shouldn’t surprise anyone because the wanton destruction of symbols of the West’s past has nothing to do with the killing of Floyd, either.

 Columbus “discovered” the New World and died well over 100 years before the first slave ship came from Africa to America. Washington was one of the most principled men who ever lived and was “The Father” of the country that has done more to advance human freedom than any other. Lincoln saved that country while freeing the slaves. He directed a war effort that saw nearly 350,000 uniontroops die…in part to put an end to slavery – and died a martyr himself. Grant defeated the Confederacy, trashed the Ku Klux Klan and fought to protect the newly won rights of black people in the years after the war. Churchill stood alone in the West against the Third Reich and its NAZIs for over 17 consecutive months.

So what is the orgy of anarchy and destruction about? It is nothing short of a planned assault on the West and the values it used to hold so dear. It is a Marxist insurrection hoping to bring about the end of the U.S.—and the West—as we knew it. It is anti-capitalist, anti-rule of law, anti-Christian and anti-freedom. The leaders of Antifa and BLM have openly admitted this. Even if they hadn’t, it is abundantly clear to see for any sentient being connecting the dots. It is also utterly racist, classist and intolerant.

And we have helped bring it on ourselves. We allowed higher education to be completely hijacked by radicals in recent decades. The same goes for mainstream media outlets, entertainment and Hollywood personalities and the heads of big tech companies. We allowed the nearly permanent bureaucracy, The Swamp, to siphon power away from our elected leaders…who themselves care far more about staying in power than about the people they supposedly “serve.” And we have allowed China covertly and overtly to pervade our society, from our college campuses to our business campuses, and steal our research and tech secrets while dispensing propaganda for the Chinese Communist Party. Sorry if you don’t believe this, but it is demonstrably true.

As the craven Western “leaders” do nothing—or even cheer on the rioters—it seems their societies are intent on seeing the curtain come down on their freedoms for the final time.

And now, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, a new monument was actually erected…to former Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) installed Lenin’s likeness on grounds that used to be part of the former West Germany, decades after its East German communist counterpart collapsed along with the Berlin Wall and the hated Stasi secret police.

Representatives from mainstream parties on the district council for Gelsenkirchen-West passed a resolution in early March stating: “Lenin stands for violence, repression, terrorism and horrific human suffering.” The resolution noted that the council would “not tolerate such an anti-democratic symbol in its district,” and added that “all legal means” would be used to block its installation.

However, later that same month the upper state court in Muenster rejected the attempt to stop the statue. The district council, in limiting itself to “all legal means,” is playing by rules that guarantee its defeat. Its members should just go destroy the statue themselves. After all, Lenin ushered in an authoritarian, communist, “proletarian dictatorship” that ultimately was responsible for the death of millions. Maybe the elites would cheer them on for doing so, just as they have sanctioned the mobs that have pillaged and plundered cities across the West in recent weeks. You think?

Lincoln, Grant and Churchill down…and Lenin up?

If we don’t put a stop to this—and soon—it will forever be a shameful monument to our decay, diminution and fecklessness.

One that the Marxist mob, and the new Stasi, won’t need to tear down.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/appetite_for_destruction_lincoln_grant_churchill_statues_coming_down_lenin_going_up.html

In Le Mans, two plainclothes officers were attacked with extreme violence. One of them did not dare to respond to a black woman who was beating him because he “especially did not want to arouse suspicion about police violence”.

Increasingly surreal scenes are witnessed all over the world: After the George Floyd affair in the United States, the multiple demonstrations taking advantage of anti-racism have generated a wave of hatred against the police, and indeed a fear among police officers.

Two officers from the Compagnies républicaines de sécurité abbreviated CRS, or the general reserve of the French National Police, were attacked by a group of two women and a man. One of the officers had his leg broken. The other was attacked by one of the women, “black on top of that,” he told French daily le Parisien. He did not respond to these blows.

On the night of June 11 to 12, two CRS decided to go for a drink in a bar located in the city center of the Sarthe prefecture, after celebrating the departure of one of their own. When the bar closed, the plainclothes agents tried to intervene in a violent dispute between customers. They met at the exit of the establishment. One of them, named Cédric, decided to “lend a helping hand to people who were disturbed”, revealed the daily. The second police officer, Laurent, related the facts: “I joined him outside so as not to leave him alone. Then it descended into chaos. Cédric showcased our quality. He said, ‘We are the police, calm down.’ It did not change anything. It even had the opposite effect.”

The officers were then attacked by man inside the bar. “He [Cédric] was on the ground, in the fetus position and he received a rain of blows,” explained Laurent. He then discovered that Cédric had suffered from a double tibia-fibula fracture. Laurent is attacked next by one of the women but he explained that he did not want to repspond given that “it was a woman, black on top of that”. He added: “With the particular context of the moment, I especially didn’t want there to be talk of police violence.”

The version of the facts was confirmed by a witness as well as the prosecution, according to le Parisien.

In shock, the agent named Cédric was booked off work for 45 days. The general delegate of the Alliance police union, Frédéric Lagache, considered that these facts are becoming more frequent than before: “Some colleagues now prefer to refrain from responding to violence, for fear of finding themselves in the accused stand.”

The three people were taken into police custody and charged, two of them were then placed in pre-trial detention and the third under judicial supervision.

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It is difficult to keep track of the major antisemitic incidents in those European countries where the hatred is massive. Concerning Germany, for instance, I have collected more than 200,000 words of notes covering less than two years.

One rapid way to gain some perspective on Germany’s antisemitic incidents in the past decade is to peruse the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) yearly reports about the top 10 worst global antisemitic incidents worldwide. These reports have been published since 2010. These SWC reports help us to identify some of the most salient expressions of antisemitism in Germany in the past decade.

The center left, Der Spiegel, is the largest-circulation weekly in Europe. In its online edition in 2012, contributor Jakob Augstein wrote “With backing from the U.S., where the president must secure the support of Jewish lobby groups, and in Germany, where coping with history, in the meantime, has a military component, the Netanyahu government keeps the world on a leash with an ever-swelling war chant.” This was a major lie as then US President Barack Obama kept following policies which were often remote or even opposed to what Israel wanted.

Augstein added another lie: “Israel’s nuclear power is a danger to the already fragile peace of the world. This statement has triggered an outcry. Because it’s true. And because it was made by a German, Guenter Grass, author and Nobel Prize winner. That is the key point. One must, therefore, thank him for taking it upon himself to speak for us all.” The late Grass, who was a Nazi in his youth, was an extreme antisemitic defamer of Israel. Looking back on where wars have since taken place, it is easy to see that Augstein was also a major defamer of Israel.

He went on: “Israel is threatened by Islamic fundamentalists in its neighborhood. But the Jews also have their fundamentalists, the ultra-orthodox Haredim. They are not a small splinter group. They make up 10% of the Israeli population. They are cut from the same cloth as their Islamic fundamentalist opponents. They follow the law of revenge.” Yet anybody marginally familiar with the reality knows that there is a huge difference between the genocide-promoting Muslim fundamentalists of Hamas and Hezbollah with their murderous terror groups and Israel’s haredim who abhor murder, which is forbidden in the Ten Commandments, and do not even enlist in the Israeli army.

One more Augstein quote: “Gaza is a place out of the end of times….1.7 million people live there on 360 square kilometers. Israel incubates its own opponents there.” The truth is that it is Hamas which promotes genocide of Israelis. Israeli reactions to it are defensive. (New photos of luxury homes and shops in Gaza show that the problem is the rich-poor gap, not Israel, ed.)

Der Spiegel is also responsible for antisemitism as it has widely distributed these lies and defamations of Israel.

The German Jewish author, Henryk Broder, who has testified as an expert in the German parliament about antisemitism in the country labeled Augstein a “little Streicher.” He added: “Jakob Augstein is not a salon antisemite, he’s a pure antisemite…an offender by conviction who only missed the opportunity to make his career with the Gestapo because he was born after the war. He certainly would have had what it takes.”

In 2014, on November 10th, The German Left party invited notorious Israel-bashers, Max Blumenthal — listed on the SWC 2013 Top10 — and David Sheen to present an “expert talk” in the Party’s meeting room in the Bundestag, the day after the commemoration of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 pogrom when the Nazis burned synagogues across Germany. Blumenthal often casts Zionism as racism and conflates alleged Israeli misdeeds with Nazi imagery.

That was too much for then top party leader, Gregor Gysi, who canceled the use of the Party’s meeting room. The incident came to be known as “Toiletgate” because Gysi was forced to barricade himself in a bathroom to escape the wrath of Blumenthal and Sheen.

This incident highlighted the ongoing efforts to demonize Israel by a group of extreme anti-Israel MPs led by Inge Höger and Annette Groth. Both of these parliamentarians were on board the controversial 2010 Mavi Marmara Gaza flotilla that carried armed passengers who intended to break the so-called “blockade” of Gaza, and upon their return to Berlin were hailed by many of their party’s MPs.

The SWC wrote that Groth, Höger and Left party official Claudia Haydt and MP Heike Hänsel – as organizers and participants – played a crucial role in stoking hatred of Israel during the “Toiletgate” scandal. All were present at the Blumenthal/Sheen talk. They are a part of a sizable group of hardcore anti-Israel Left party MPs.

In response to the “Toiletgate” scandal, a petition signed by the reform wing of The Left party MPs, regional politicians and members stated: “By stoking obsessive hatred of and demonizing Israel, members of our party in positions of responsibility are promoting antisemitic patterns of argument and a relativization of the Holocaust and the German responsibility for the extermination of millions of European Jews.”

The 2016 SWC report details how Leaders of the local German Teacher’s Union (GEW) in Oldenburg called for a total boycott of Israel. In September, the Oldenburg GEW local published a pro-BDS article by Christoph Glanz, a public school teacher and fanatic opponent of the Jewish State. Glanz, who has tried posing as a Jew to avoid charges of antisemitism called for the eradication of the State of Israel and relocation of its Jews to southwestern Germany.

In 2019, the most extreme antisemitic event was the failed attack on the synagogue in the German city Halle. Tens of Jews praying in that synagogue on Yom Kippur – Judaism’s holiest day – miraculously escaped certain injury or death at the hands of a neo-Nazi as the attacker failed to break down a security door outside a synagogue in the city. After failing to enter the synagogue, Stephan Balliet, 27, armed with a sub-machine gun and explosives, killed 2 civilians nearby and injured 2 others. Balliet admitted that he was motivated by his hatred of Jews. In his manifesto, he stated, “Kill as many anti-Whites as possible, Jews preferred.”

From the 2019 report: Germany is in the midst of an 18-month stint on the UN Security Council. Its UN Ambassador, Christoph Heusgen made the SWC Top ten list in 2019. He created an uproar after word spread regarding the number of anti-Israel votes he has cast, but above all by his equating 130 rockets fired by terrorist organization Hamas at Israeli civilians in one week in March, with the Jewish state’s demolition of terrorists’ homes.

Heusgen declared: “We believe that international law is the best way to protect civilians and allow them to live in peace and security and without fear of Israeli bulldozers or ‘Hamas rockets.’ Bild, Germany’s best-selling daily, accused Heusgen in an editorial, of “pure malice” against the Jewish State. Heusgen cast 16 anti-Israel votes at the UN in 2018, abstaining once. In 2019, he voted for nine anti-Israel resolutions, including one labelling Jerusalem’s holiest sites as “Palestinian Occupied Territory,” while abstaining three times and opposing only one anti-Israel resolution.

This is much less than one percent of my notes on antisemitism in Germany. Yet it very succinctly shows that the country is far from succeeding in eradicating antisemitism. The publication of Augstein’s article by Der Spiegel, the boycott-promoting teachers union and Heusgen’s comparison of Israel and Hamas reflect how this hatred has permeated and is alive in the German mainstream.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/282241

The answer appears to be infinity. 

Khairi Saadallah, the Libyan refugee who killed 3 people in an Islamic terror stabbing rampage in the UK, came to the UK in 2012 and applied for asylum. Over these past 8 years, he’s done all sorts of wonderful things to repay the British people for their hospitality.

Perhaps, at some point, he might have been deported before killing 3 people?

The terror suspect accused of stabbing three people to death in Reading is believed to be a Libyan refugee who was released from prison just two weeks ago and was previously known to MI5.

Last October, Khairi Saadallah, 25, was sentenced to 28 months for breaching a suspended jail term, racially aggravated assault, criminal damage and affray.

He was released from HMP Bullingdon, Oxfordshire, 16 days ago after less than half of his sentence. 

That worked out well.

He has at least one previous conviction for a “minor violent offence”, Sky News reported, and he is thought to have spent at least 12 months in jail.

In August last year, a man of the same name, age, and address appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court after allegedly assaulting a judge at Reading Magistrates’ Court while being sentenced for two previous convictions, the Press and Journal reported.

In April last year, a man of the same name and age was imprisoned for two months for a common assault on an emergency worker and fined £115 for possession of a blade, the Reading Chronicle reported.

Saadallah is also thought to have been previously charged with affray, assault by beating, and possessing an offensive weapon following an altercation with a Sainsbury’s security guard who had accused him of shoplifting. 

The official media narrative, as usual, is mental illness. Just don’t ask his brother.

A MAN claiming to be the brother of the Reading terror attack suspect has said he was “defending himself” during yesterday’s rampage.

Mo Saadallah wrote in a Facebook response to a news report about the stabbings in Forbury Gardens, Reading: “This is not true. Khairi defended himself … racist countries. Freedom for my brother Before !!”

He did not explain how Khairi was defending himself.

In a later post he wrote: “we are not terrois [sic] and f**k England. #The_kingdom_of_racism.”

The whole family must be suffering from mental illness.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/06/how-many-crimes-does-libyan-refugee-have-commit-he-daniel-greenfield/

Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced on Sunday that he will file a formal criminal complaint against a left-wing columnist for writing that the country’s 250,000 police officers should be tossed on the trash heap where they belong.Seehofer, who ordered that all activities of the terrorist movement Hezbollah be outlawed in late April, told the mass-circulation daily Bild on Sunday: “As federal interior minister, I will file a criminal complaint tomorrow against the columnist for the unspeakable article in the taz about the police.”

He said that the words of Hengameh Yaghoobifarah in her column leads to the “excesses of violence, just as we have seen it now in Stuttgart. We cannot accept that.”Gangs smashed stores and attacked police in the southern Germany city of Stuttgart. An estimated 400 to 500 people attacked police after a drug check was made. Many of the rioters wore hoods and masked their faces.Yaghoobifarah, a 29-year-old German woman, wrote a column last week titled “All cops are incapable of working.”She laid out a scenario in her column in which the police force would be abolished and asked: “In which industries can ex-cops still be let in?”She continued that there is “only one suitable option” as a workplace for police officers – “the landfill.”Yaghoobifarah concluded that “Not as rubbish people with keys to houses, but on the heap where they are really only surrounded by waste. They certainly feel most comfortable among their own kind.”The German police unions DPolG and GdP filed criminal complaints against the taz for “inciting hatred.”The taz’s editor-in-chief Barbara Junge expressed regret about the commentary. “A column, however satirical it may have been, that can be understood as if police officers are nothing but rubbish, went wrong. I’m sorry,” Junge wrote in the taz.In 2017, The Jerusalem Post reported that the progressive paper taz was accused of stoking antisemitism, spreading Nazi conspiracy theories and defending Palestinian terrorism against the Jewish state.Sigmount Königsberg, the commissioner on antisemitism for Germany’s largest Jewish community in Berlin, told the Post in 2017 that taz’s former Israel-based correspondent “Susanne Knaul legitimizes terrorism.”Knaul sparked outrage over her commentary arguing that “Jerusalem is not Berlin” when evaluating the morality of vehicular terrorist attacks that took place in both cities. It is a “fact that there are reasons for the desperation that motivates Palestinians to suicide attacks,” she wrote. Knaul cited the “occupation” and “injustice” as ostensibly legitimate reasons to murder Israeli soldiers.In 2017, a Palestinian drove his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers, murdering four of them in attack that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was “part of the same pattern inspired by the Islamic State.” In December 2016, an Islamic State supporter rammed his truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people, including Israeli Dalia Elyakim.The taz frequently offers space in its paper for writers who defend the Boycott, Divestment,  and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. The Bundestag classified BDS as an antisemitic movement in 2019.The taz and Junge declined to answer comment about the accusations levelled against the paper at the time.

https://www.jpost.com/international/germany-to-file-criminal-complaint-against-anti-police-columnist-632317

by Giulio Meotti

“The world will be the same but worse after the virus,” wrote the French novelist Michel Houellebecq. He was right. Western civilization came out from lockdown to start a kind of countdown and it is now disintegrating along racial, religious and cultural lines.

“The class struggle disappears in favor of the racial war. It joins and competes with political Islam. An explosive cocktail.” This is Manuel Valls, the former French prime minister, to Valuers Actuelles magazine. “In the neighborhoods, the collapse of the Communist Party, the loss of influence of the Church, the atomization of society adds to the dilution of left-wing universalist thinking. Human rights associations have been lost and have opened the doors to Tariq Ramadan (…) It is folly to want to impose this reading of ‘white privilege’. Part of the left and the its leaders fed on American communitarianism. They are trying to impose on us, everywhere in Europe, a culture of anti-racism or feminism which is a dangerous neo-puritanism.”

Mr. Valls goes to the heart of the current troubles: Islamization and the loss of entire pieces of territory and European culture are welded to the anti-Western historical revenge carried out by pieces of white Western multiculturalism on behalf of the minorities – and a frightening masochistic sense of guilt.

Many enjoy watching the West burning.

The US is experiencing a wave of racial hatred for political cynical electoral reasons and for an ideological willing to dismantle “White privilege”, read it as Western civilization.

The Europe we knew is over. We have been made to realize that by the scenes from Dijon, once the beautiful capital of French Burgundy. Today it looks like Mogadishu. It is a war between Chechen and Maghreb bands. They shoot one another in broad daylight. They chase each other with swords. They block traffic. They attack cars. They perform raids and patrols. They fear nothing, certainly not the French state or the police.

In these images there is everything, the point of no return of many European countries, the appalling damage of mass immigration, the abandonment of entire cities and neighborhoods, the failure of multiculturalism. The rise of antisemitism. These are the new barbarian invasions. Hard to hope it ends well.

In the last few hours, as I write this, the statue of Columbus is being pulled down by the California Congress and the David Hume monument in Edinburgh has been vandalized.

Free speech is almost over. Take J.K. Rowling, the British writer of “Harry Potter”. She dared to say that men and women exist and gender ideology is a threat to sexual difference. She was lynched as a “femi-Nazi” and nobody in the mainstream media had the courage to stand up for her.

Today cultural destruction is politically correct. The blind destructive fury of this primitive iconoclasm, this delusion of self-hatred that has conquered the media and the political establishment, is the attempt to wipe out not only an entire culture, but its very memory, and replace it with infernal dogmas.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/282237

Police in the United Kingdom investigates Saturday’s knife attack in the city of Reading, in which three people died, as a terrorist act, but there are fears that his attack may have been motivated by homophobia after police named one of the victims as a ‘brilliant and loving’ gay American

Investigators are still have not confirmed a motive of the 25-year-old Libyan asylum seeker arrested over the incident, however, 39-year-old American Joe Ritchie-Bennett is believed to have been gay.

A local told the Daily Mail that, “two of the confirmed deaths are gay men. A friend told me the third is also a gay man. I knew one of them, who was an acquaintance. A homophobic attack can still be a terrorist incident.”

Police apparently have not ruled out homophobia as a possible motive.

Ritchie-Bennett had been at a picnic with his friends when the group was attacked by Saadallah, who also murdered James Furlong, 36, who was a history teacher. A total of three people were killed and three were seriously injured.

Although the police did not officially identify the perpetrator, the Press Association wrote that his name is 25-year-old Khairi Saadallah. Sky News then reported that the Libyan had applied for asylum in the United Kingdom, claiming he feared Islamists in his own country. According to the Associated Press, last year, Saadallah spent two months in prison for assaulting an emergency worker.

Saadallah was a local who lived approximately a mile from the scene of the attack. He is said to have converted from Islam to Christianity three years ago, and enjoyed smoking marijuana and drinking whiskey. Although the man reportedly claimed in different encounters to have fought both for and against ISIS, police say he did not ascribe to any ideology and may have been suffering from mental health issues.

The attack took place around 6 p.m. in the center of Reading, where the sunny weather attracted many people to the nearby park. As pubs in the UK are closed due to coronavirus measures, a lot of people gather outside.

Witnesses who have already been questioned by more than 40 investigators who said that the young Libyan started randomly attacking people around him. A Reading resident, Lawrence Wort, told BBC News that the assailant suddenly ran to a group of about eight to ten people and began stabbing them in the neck and other parts of the body with a knife. Then he ran after Wort, who managed to escape.

“From our inquiries so far, officers have found nothing to suggest that there was anyone else involved in this attack, and presently we are not looking for anyone else in relation to this incident,” said the Metropolitan police assistant commissioner Neil Basu, adding that there is no indication that there is a risk of another attack or that staying in public places would be dangerous.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was horrified by the attack.

“If there were lessons to be learned after the attack, the government will not hesitate to take action,” the prime minister said, suggesting a fresh crackdown on terror suspects.

The UK has experienced several terrorist attacks in recent years, carried out by radical Islamists. In 2017, a suicide bomber killed 22 people at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester.

In several attacks, the perpetrators also used knives or drove cars into victims. The last attack happened in February in London, where the police shot a man who attacked several people with a knife, wounding at least three people, one of them seriously. Last November, an assailant stabbed two people on London Bridge. Later, it turned out that he was convicted of terrorism in the past.

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A 42-year-old woman who was stabbed to death last Friday evening on the street Nordbahnhofstraße in Stuttgart died in the course of yesterday’s Sunday (see tweet above). The 52-year-old Afghani man suspected of the crime was brought before a judge on Saturday, who issued the arrest warrant. Further investigations are ongoing.

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